The Islamic State group detonated explosives in the ancient Baal Shamin temple on Aug. 25, an act that cultural agency Unesco has called a war crime.
Leaders of the You Stink movement in Lebanon have promised a “surprise” unless the country’s fractured government meets its demands within 72 hours.
A new poll in Iowa shows two outsiders, Donald Trump and Ben Carson, have a lot more support than do 15 insiders in the race for the Republican U.S. presidential nomination.
Three people who walked into a police station after one victim was knifed to death and three others were wounded by gunfire were arrested on suspicion of involvement.
The two people were alleged to have been spying for the U.S. and Israel.
Fred is heading toward the Cape Verde Islands off West Africa, forecasters said.
A Lithuanian man was detained on Saturday when police stopped him outside Budapest with 12 Syrians in his vehicle.
"The only way for the people to get back to the old system is for them to remove this prime minister," Mahathir Mohamad says.
More than 4,300 people have been killed in five months of war in Yemen while disease and suffering in the already impoverished country have spread.
Egypt summoned the British ambassador to reject as "unacceptable interference" comments he made on an Egyptian court's decision to hand down prison sentences for three Al Jazeera journalists, state media said on Sunday.
A number of far-right demonstrators protesting the construction of a mosque broke through police lines and began fighting with anti-racism counterprotesters.
As Europe grapples with its biggest wave of migration since World War Two, the Netherlands is about to toughen its asylum policy by cutting off food and shelter for people who fail to qualify as refugees.
The deaths of 71 migrants in a truck found in Austria this week have prompted public revulsion and renewed police efforts to crack down on people-smuggling rings.
China's anti-corruption agency has said it has opened an investigation into the former chairman of major Chinese steelmaker Wuhan Iron and Steel.
A fire at an oil workers residential compound in Saudi Arabia on Sunday claimed one casualty and injured 30 more of various nationalities, civil defense authorities said.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang argues that market-stabilization measures taken by the country's government have been effective.
Police probing Thailand's deadliest bombing widened their net in the search for more suspects on Sunday after a foreigner was arrested and stacks of fake passports and bomb-making materials were found.
Some 12,000 soldiers will march through Beijing's central Tiananmen Square on Thursday, mostly Chinese but with Russian and a few other foreign contingents, accompanied by tanks and armored vehicles, as fighter jets scream overhead.
In response to the spike in homicides, hundreds of police officers have been pulled from administrative roles to resume patrol duty as part of a new “all hands on deck” strategy.
The Republican U.S. presidential hopeful also says his forthcoming decision on whether to potentially run as an independent candidate would make people happy.
A witness says the baseball fan got excited as Alex Rodriguez came up to bat and "his momentum took him" over a railing.
A survey of Iowa Democrats indicates U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont is polling within 7 percentage points of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
During Sierra Leone's long conflict, the diamonds were sent to neighboring Liberia where former President Charles Taylor used the proceeds to finance weapons for rebels.
“This is a farcical verdict which strikes at the heart of freedom of expression in Egypt," a spokesman for Amnesty International said.
Goforth was killed in an unprovoked, execution-style slaying Friday evening, police said Saturday.
“We've made significant progress and are awaiting council approval before taking any next steps,” Jeff Millman, an aide to the mayor, told the LA Times.
Texas police officer Darren Goforth was killed Friday night by a gunman at a gas station. Police said they had arrested one person in connection to the shooting Saturday afternoon.
"We need a revolution to free ourselves from these politicians," one demonstrator says as protesters rally in Lebanon's capital for the second straight weekend.
White House National Security Adviser Susan Rice met with Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss "areas of difference."
The Islamic State group arrested up to 200 people protesting after a man was shot in front of his relatives, the Anbar Council confirmed to the AP.